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Government "tinkering" tops super industry worries

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... against) and regulation will be aimed at addressing these critical member risks." AIST CEO Tom Garcia said that it is no surprise that some respondents worry that the Government will increasingly look at super as a source of revenue in the years to come. ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... August 2014 - the same time as the price of crude oil began its freefall and the US dollar commenced lift-off. Well, surprise of surprises. Similarly, the annual growth in US export prices dropped to minus 5.9% last month from minus 5.1% in January - ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... -- gives substance to the "beggar-they-neighbour" rant I've been ranting since world central banks started handing out surprise easing policies, one after the other, this year - some even going for a double-dip. The thing is this creates a vicious circle ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
"Baby, baby, baby oooh Like baby, baby, baby nooo..." - Justin Bieber "Baby, baby, baby oooh." Another month, another strong and better-than-expected US non-farm payrolls report. US businesses added another 295K heads to their payroll (versus expectations ...

No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... benchmark lending rate from 5.9% to 5.6%. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) followed with its own - but not the 'kinder surprise' version - putting a stay on interest rates against majority expectations for a reduction to a new record low of 2.0%. ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... their 'non-conventional' policies are weakening the yen and the euro versus everybody else. The BOJ and the ECB - and the surprise CB rate cutters - hope and wish and pray that by reducing the cost of borrowing, businesses and consumers would be induced ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
The share market is higher as miners benefit from a surprise cut to interest rates in China. Phillip Capital senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the absence of any adverse events on overseas markets, a cut to interest rates by the People's ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... over deflation was also one of the reasons (along with property market slowdown) for the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) surprise rate cut announcement over the weekend. The PBOC cut its benchmark one-year lending rate and one-year deposit rate by 25 ...

Altair AM signs equity mandates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... in-house chief economist, wrote in his February briefing the likelihood of another 25bp rate cut following this month's surprise rate cut. "The RBA recognises a weaker growth outlook than it was forecasting in late 2014. It wants to provide more monetary ...

Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know. This is dear Aunt Janet's answer to the "lift-off" question that everyone has been waiting for - and speculating on -- since the Fed completed its QE taper back in October last year. There was plenty of information in the ...